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='''This is the sub-project where all profiles of South Africans who participated during World War II can be added.'''= All South African Army, Navy and Air Force soldiers who participated in WWII can be added to this project. Sub-projects for more specialised interests will be added when possible. Collaborators are welcome, and so are suggestions. Under "DOCUMENTS" you will find pages ...
Victims of the Nazis during the Holocaust קרבנות הנאצים בשואה This project's mission is to list the names of the victims who were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust to show that these victims are not just an anonymous mass, but were, and some still are, millions of human beings with names, relationships and personal biographies. They all live on in our hearts and minds. ---We will Nev...
Doel van dit project is om genealogische profielen te verzamelen die afkomstig zijn van de namen die staan vermeld op de ERELIJST VAN GEVALLENEN ‧ 1940-1945 Beknopte geschiedenis van de totstandkoming van de Erelijst leest u hier De genealogische profielen die zijn toegevoegd aan dit project tot op heden treft u aan via de volgende link: OVERZICHT VAN PROFIELEN Enkele tips om de...
If in your family tree you have Lithuanians who participated in WWII resistance, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description there would be a brief biography added. This should include not only local Lithuania's resistance participants, but also people of various nationalities and citizens of other countries, who's families are descending from Lithuania....
USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136): Frederick C. Davis: A Virtual Cemetery created by John Dowdy USS Frederick C. Davis I wish to express my profound gratitude to John Dawdy for his work, for without it the project could not be expanded on.
This is for those who served on Edsall Class Destroyer Escort Ships. Media: Trivia: 1) Used in anti-sub warfare and escort duty. 2) Used in the early days of the Cold War as Pickett ships. Ships: USS Edsall (DE-129): USS Jacob Jones (DE-130):
Background of the Movements===== The French Resistance movement is an umbrella term which covered numerous anti-German resistance groups that were based within France. ===There were a number of resistance movements, some that took direct orders from the Special Operations Executive , there was the communist resistance, groups loyal to de Gaulle , regional resistance movements that wanted indepe...
Stolpersteine in Germany This is a child project of Stolpersteine and is intended to house all the profiles of monuments placed in Germany. Stolpersteine (Stumbling Blocks) is a memorial project of the artist Gunter Demnig . With appropriately placed plaques he wants to remind us of the fate of people who were persecuted, murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide during the Nazi...
Het Scheveningse huis van bewaring bestaat al sinds 1919, maar na de capitulatie van Nederland werd het door de Duitsers in gebruik genomen als 'Deutsches Untersuchungs- und Strafgefängnis' en 'Kriegswehrmachtgefangnis.' Al snel werd de gevangenis 'Het Oranjehotel' genoemd, omdat er vooral verzetsstrijders werden vastgehouden voor ondervraging en proces omdat zij zich op welke manier dan ook ve...
Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS= The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (German: Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon der Waffen-SS ) was a motorized infantry battalion of the German Waffen-SS during World War II . It was formed from Finnish volunteers and fought on the Eastern Front as part of the SS Division Wiking . The unit was disbanded in mid-1943 as the two-year comm...
In May 1940, a handful of Jewish US citizens were evacuated from British Palestine aboard an Egyptian freighter. This project tells the events leading up to the evacuation and their remarkable story Summary In May 1940, a series of diplomatic dispatches ensue between Jerusalem British Consul General Wadsworth and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Wadsworth is very candid about w...
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), called "Women's Army Service Pilots" by some sources, was a paramilitary aviation organization. The WASP's predecessors, the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) organized separately in September 1942. They were the pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots, employed to fly military aircra...
List of Australian Divisions in World War II* 1st Armoured Division* 2nd Armoured Division - also known as the 2nd Calvary Division and 2nd Motor Division* 3rd Armoured Division - also known as the 1st Calvary Division and 1st Motor Division* 1st Division* 2nd Division* 3rd Division* 4th Division* 5th Division* 6th Division* 7th Division* 8th Division* 9th Division* 10th Division* 11th Division...
After a twenty-three-year absence, women returned to general Navy service in early August 1942, when Mildred McAfee was sworn in as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander, the first female commissioned officer in U.S. Navy history, and the first Director of the WAVES, or "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service". In the decades since the last of the Yeomen (F) left active duty, only a rela...
The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning) and the Battle of Pearl Harbor) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). From the standpoint of the defende...
Engelandvaarders= Engelandvaarder werd de erenaam voor alle mannen en vrouwen die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1940-1945), na de capitulatie van de Nederlandse strijd-krachten en vóór de geallieerde invasie in Normandië op 6 juni 1944 (D-day) uit bezet gebied wisten te ontsnappen met de bedoeling zich in Engeland of ander geallieerd gebied bij de geallieerde strijdkrachten aan te sluiten om ...
Amerikaans 'vergeten' Bombardement=∴ 1943 ∴ 31 maart ∴ 13:30 uur ∴ =Rotterdam-West ==∴ Delfthaven ∴ Zuid-Holland ∴ Nederland ∴=∴ =∴ Het 'Vergeten Bombardement' op Rotterdam-West vond plaats op 31 maart 1943 met wederom een groot aantal slachtoffers : 401 mensen kwamen om en 16.500 mensen raakten dakloos, de meesten bewoners van of voorbijgangers in de wijken Bospolder-Tussendijken - Spangen - Z...
This is the sub-project where all profiles of South Africans who were Prisoners of War during World War II can be added. All South African Army, Navy and Air Force soldiers (and civilians?) who were Prisoners of War during WWII can be added to this project. About 334,000 men volunteered for full-time service in the South African Army during the war (including some 211,000 whites, 77,000 blac...
EEREBEGRAAFPLAATS in de Kennemer duinen van Bloemendaal / Overveen waar 373 verzets-strijders uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog hun laatste rustplaats vonden. Voor zover niet anders vermeld kwamen zij om op 1 juli 1943 tijdens executies elders in de Kennemerduinen waar zij aanvankelijk ter plekke werden begraven. Sommigen kregen posthuum het Verzetsherdenkingskruis 1940-1945 en zijn gemarkeerd ♕ . Ex...
RAF Badge The Royal Air Force ==United Kingdom===== Images - Left, Royal Airforce emblem by Royal Air Force - Public Domain, Wikipedia ; Right - Royal Airforce Logo Fair use, Wikipedia The purpose of this project is to give a short history of the Royal Air Force and to gather together Geni profiles of people who have served in the service.Please link any RAF profiles to the project regardless...
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I . Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was on...
Popis poginulih Splićana u NOB-u za vrijeme 2 svjetskog rata Izvor : Doprinos Hrvata Splićana antifašizmu, Popis poginulih u borbi na Sutjesci, 15. svibnja - 16. lipnja 1943. Kazalo : prezime, u zagradama - ime oca, ime osobe, godina rođenja, nacionalnost, uzrok smrti, godina smrti, mjesto smrti (NN ili Nn) = znači ime oca Nikola
This project is dedicated to commemorating the victims of the Leningrad blockade between September 8, 1941, and January 27, 1944. If in your family tree, you have persons who were living in Leningrad during the siege 1941-1944, and who died during that time, please add them to this project. Please add within a profile description some biography facts. Within opened profile page use the 'Ac...
Australian soldiers held as prisoners of war in WWIIPlease add persons who were imprisoned by the enemy during the years of the second world war, who were Australian.===Specific Camps WWII* Geni Project - WWII Prisoners at Stalag VII-A - WikiPage ===Resources* Australian National Archives - Prisoner of war records A-Z * Australian Prisoners of War | The Anzac Portal * Stolen Years: Australian p...
Omgekomen in de Javazee ‧ 1942-1943 ‧ Dutch victims Asea 〓 Op verschillende data vonden gevechtshandelingen plaats : 02 jani 1942 - 29 nov 1943 - 13 feb 1942 - Koopvaardij-schepen - 19 feb 1942 - 24 feb 1942 - 27-28 feb 1942: Slag in de JAVA-zee 〓 Schepen : Hr.Ms. KORTENAER - Hr.Ms. JAVA - Hr.Ms. DE RUYTER 〓 ss. SUEZ MARU : Japans krijgsgevangenen-schip getorpedeerd op 29 novemb...